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Welcome to these Defect Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu

Related topics: Wisdom

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins

It is better to do one's own duty,
however defective it may be,
than to follow the duty of another,
however well one may perform it.
He who does his duty as
his own nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu


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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Prevention is better than cure.
- Desiderius Erasmus

When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can do what you have to do,
and sometimes you can do it
even better than you think you can.
- Jimmy Carter

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous

Better late than never.
- Proverb

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein

It is any day better to stand erect
with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly,
in order to be able to save one's head.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau

There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
What if they are a little coarse,
and you may get your coat soiled or torn?
What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice.
Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb

A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I release the familiar that I may better discover my inspiring future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that
it is better for hard words to be on paper
than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
- Anne Frank

The world is a better place because I am here.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual
to get a better view of what is possible.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau

Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb

Trust yourself. Only you can live your life.
Only you can taste your victories.
Only you can suffer the sting of your defeats.
Make your own choices, and accept your own consequences -
for better or worse.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


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